While Dan Inouye's immense impact on Hawaii is difficult to measure, his association with the East-West Center is easily one of his most significant accomplishments.

Take a close look at the photograph at right: That's a very young Inouye, then in the U.S. House of Representatives, standing with other members of the congressional delegation as they view an architectural model of the proposed East-West Center campus.

The year is 1960, and the caption in the center's Flickr photostream reads, "The delegation will go before the Senate Appropriations Committee within a few days to seek funds for the center."

Inouye would soon be elected senator himself — there is a photo of Inouye breaking ground on the center along with then Vice President Lyndon Johnson — and eventual chairman of Senate Appropriations, posts he held until his death on Dec. 17 at the age of 88.